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The University of Basel (German: Universität Basel) is located at Basel, Switzerland.
Founded in 1459, it is Switzerland's oldest university. Erasmus, Paracelsus, Daniel Bernoulli, Jacob Burckhardt, Leonhard Euler and Friedrich Nietzsche are among those associated with the university, which is nowadays famous for research into tropical medicine. This University is also renowned for its former research into Earth Sciences, Slavistics and Astronomy (R.I.P. 2004).
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